My Notes On The Sun

This term for our topic you probably already know that our schools topic is earth and beyond. So our class decided to focus on stars and we started out thinking about the sun. Here are my notes of what I have learnt so far.

SNAG Golf

SNAG GOLF
Today for Kiwi Sports we had SNAG golf which stands for Starting New At Golf. Our instructor was Hough. For our activities we had to roll the tennis ball to the bullseye and if we do we say SNAG. At the beginning I played with my three friends that's right friends, Etai, Lolo and TJ. We were playing on the bottom courts by the way. Anywho, when it was my second turn I two SNAGS in a row. We also did the shakeout thing like what post before. But unfortunately I had to leave early for a gloss test so here is a video to show what we were doing.

NZ ShakeOut Day Tommorow

Tomorrow will be NZ annual Shakeout day our people as a country will join in to celebrate it. In memorial of the Christchurch earthquake back in 2010. Check the presentation for more understanding.

Etai - Lolo - Brandon Cypress - WATER BOTTLE ROCKET - BIG REVEAL EXPERIMENT

I have just recently come back to school today and my fellow friends let me join in their group since I had a lot to catch up on. Here is a task that our class did yesterday when I wasn't here.

My Poem/Tic (ENJOY PLS)

Tic

On the sideline scouting for teammates that are open.

Fourth quarter and there is only seven seconds left on the clock,

I’m stuck in place.

Mad gorillas surrounding me calling for the ball.

Audience is cheering, going seriously crazy

I’ve stopped breathing,

staring into an imaginary distance.

Thinking about last play,

should I cut through the d?

or let my team do the job for me?

I am like an owl at night scavenging around my surroundings.

So much plays to use but only I think of one.

Time to do this.

Passing the ball to my teammate,

Quickly running into the court like a madman,

Cutting through to the back waiting for a pass,

I take a call,

3 seconds now left,

I get the ball and waste the clock a little,

BOOF!

In the air back down into slow motion again many thoughts in my head like,

“Will I miss, will I get it or do I look epic?”

The sight of victory is in my eyes as I release now its time to see the truth.

The ball takes lift off and makes its way towards the rim,

Everyone freezes.

Tic toc tic,

0.4 seconds on the clock, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1.

ERRRRRRRR!

Crank, Plank, Shih.

“MISS!”

Bar Key On The PC

I choose the bar key out of all of the thinkers keys to work on because it is fun and you get to be creative. The game or console that I decided to improve was the pc. I hope you will find my results interesting.

Cypress and James Blooms Taxonomy

This was an activity that me and my fellow friend James (LINK) have worked on this morning. It is a current events bloom's taxonomy on an article that we read. View it to see more about what we have produced.

Soccer Baseball

Today our class went outside to present each group games that we made to room 1. Because they were juniors we explained it with examples on how to play. They turned out to really like it. Check out the post for more to know about me, Sulaiman and Brandons game.

Iron Tamariki Key Imformation

Cypress

Our year 8 teacher Ms Aireen gave us a text to read called "Iron Tamariki". Then after we finished reading the story and summarised the text in our reading groups we then had to write down some key ideas from the text. Here is my key information. One key idea from the text is that Mana just wanted his parents to get along with each other during his training. He wanted for both of his parents to be together and be happy. Instead of him having a growth mindset towards to marathon he put himself down.

Brodie

Iron tamariki, a text the class was given to express the key information (ideas). The main idea me and a buddy have come up with is having a growth mindset. In the text there is a boy who wants to run a marathon, but with his mum and dad training him. With his dads help he was able to finish the marathon. This is explaining that the dad had a growth, how did I find this out? With my inferring capabilities with reading. So In the story a key Idea having a growth mindset not only because the dad helped in his son, also because the son chose to keep going and trying to complete the race.

Me and my friend Brodie worked together on this.

More of our description is on our writing above.

Te Whare Tapa Wha

For some of our work for inquiry we had to focus on the fall walls of a person's mind. We got split up into groups (I was with Mehi, Maopa and Sulaiman) and we had to do a jigsaw activity when each person of your group have to go to different groups to learn more about one wall. Then they return that information back to their home groups.
Here is all of our groups information.

Cypress and Sulaiman - Soccer Timeline

For inquiry this year you probably know that our school are focussing on games (world wide). An what our class had to do to get started into our research were to come up with ways to let our reader have an idea on what the game is, or what has happened in the game. Me and my mate Sulaiman made a timeline to show the history of our game. These are just the main dates and activities that have happened during the time.

Multi Multiplication Methods

These are me and my friend Brandons answers to this (Link) activity sheet. We were just showing off our knowledge of strategies we could use to solve complex multiplication questions.

String Art That I Like

In art technology our art group are focussing on string art for this term. We were told by the teacher to pick one piece of string art that you like and write down why you like it. I choose this piece read into it to see why.

Underground Explorers

Me and my fellow friend Brodie (Link) have read this book in our reading group called underground explorers. We had to summarize key events in the story and show our answers on each question. Drop a comment down below to give me advice on what I need to work on.
Bye

Place Value and Partitioning

Set as an assignment from our teacher Ms Aireen, me and my maths group divide 10 were supposed to answer 4 x timetable question using our place value and partitioning skills. Here were my answers and my strategies.

My Multiplicative Thinking DLO

This post is about my multiplicative thinking knowledge for this term. We have been learning about multiplicative thinking for the past 2 terms or so and so far I have learnt quite a lot. In this presentation are some examples of my knowledge and are questions that tell you where I'm at.

My Holiday

So right now were getting near the end of the holidays and I have been saving this post for quite a while. So far my holiday has been pretty all right and not to bad at the begging of the holidays I had a basketball tournament and yeah or team "The Tamaki Tornadoes game first (Not really). Ok so I lied we came last but in our minds we came first. Also during the holidays I played xbox 360 a lot, I went over to my friends house and I went to the shops as well but other then that, that's about it. Now that I start to think about it that's not really that much that I did. Mostly I was just being a LAZY SLOB and sat around watching TV. Umm so yeah that about sums out this post.
See you soon probably at the end of the holidays, BYE!

My Locker Label

Hi once again audience.
I'm back with another post and this is about my locker label. Our class as transferred our lockers from outside to inside, so now we have to make new locker labels. This is my one. I put in a basketball because I love basketball obviously. And then I put in a backboard for the basketball to enter but instead I put cheese in the hoop cause why not. There's a HI on the basketball because I like greeting people with respect, a Jordan symbol because I like Jordans and a shot clock count down in red to make it look more attractive. Now on the bottom I have a Yao Ming meme because its funny, some drum sticks cause I like drumming and last but not least my name. Please like this and stay tuned for more posts.

Tamaki Primary Corrugated Art

This drawing is about symbols that show you the key features of our class. These were the symbols I chose to describe my class. I hope you like this little piece of work I have finished.

The Forbidden Forest

Finally,
The end product of my myth. Its all done. Before you watch this yes there were heaps of mistakes in the process but I managed to get this done some how. Feast your eyes upon my story, The Forbidden Forest.

My Myth Art

Above this writing is my art about my myth. My myth is about the one and only Taniwha and to describe him I drew a picture of him. This didn't take me that long to do but it was sometimes anoying to draw.

Xtramath Scores Part 1

This post is just my one of my scores on a site called xtramath. What this site tells you to do is it gives you basic fact questions to answer and the most you can answer in a row will be your score. So far this is my highest. Man I'm a noob!

How The Tiger Got His Stripes

This was a late post I forgot to publish on my blog from about 2 weeks ago. What our class did was going into our buddy class for a day and doing some work with each of our buddies. My buddies name was Taynah and I also had a year 8 buddy as well due to the year one class having only a little bit of students. Here is a presentation of a reflection of a story (Link) we watched on YouTube.
Enjoy

Golden State Win The Finals

Yaaayy!
I know that this post is a little bit late but I thought that I would just congratulate the Golden State Warriors on winning the finals in the NBA. I first heard this news about a week ago and yeah it was very exciting to hear. Also I would like to say that the Cavs played well in the finals with the Warriors. They made it tough for the Warriors to win but the Warriors got the job done and did it. This is there 1st win in over 40 years. They done their fans well. And just before I leave I would like to congratulate Andre Iguodala on wining the MVP award.

Cypress - Taniwha Figurative Language Descriptions

The Drawing above is a template showing you some figurative language that can be used to describe the character Taniwha and what he does too. 

I am learning to describe a character using figurative language to make my sentences more detailed. 

Cypress - Celebrating Matariki

This is a piece of work I have just finished putting together by myself. The drawing above this text is just a description of what Matariki is. I tried to challenge myself with these questions and my answers were the best I could think of.
Peace and stay tuned.

Cypress and Brandon - Hermes (Mercury) Gods and Goddesses

A piece of work put together by me and my reliable friend Brandon. It is basicly just a drawing that has figurative language describing our character Hermes.

Similies and Metaphors Basic Lessons For Writing

WALT use figurative language in a sentence to a mythical character.

Simile

Definition:

A simile compares an object to another using like or as.

Examples:

• Taniwha was as dark as a mysterious shadow.
• He was strong like a mighty god.

Metaphor

Definition:

A metaphor compares one object without using like or as.

Examples:

• Kahi was a gigantic giraffe.
• Te awai was tiny little ant.

Today we were going back to the basics and were just defining similies and metaphors so that we will understand them. Obviously we all knew what they were and to use them already but this task was just about us showing our knowledge towards them.

Percy Jackson Movie Tasks Part 3/Applying

Applying was our next task after Understanding and what me TJ and Etai had to do was match the name of the creature to its species, and also write down what our favourite one is and why.
Stay tuned

Percy Jackson Movie Tasks Part 2/Understanding

Percy Jackson	Grover
CHARACTERISTICS - how would you describe this character? their personality? Percy is a curious demi-god who wants to learn more from where he came from and who is he as a hero. He is a funny, goofy, nerdy, brave, big hearted and strong. This hero is the son of Poseidon and the daughter of a mortal. He always thought that his real father didn't want him.	CHARACTERISTICS - how would you describe this character? their personality? Grover is satar whose job is to protect Percy and Percy's family. Percy’s best friend is Grover and Grover always has his back. Grover makes the story more funnier and entertaining. He has to disguise in public to keep his legs a secret.
ACTIONS - what key actions and events did this character take part in? Percy Jackson took part in things in training, a battle, ctf meaning (capture the flag) and studying. Percy also travelled to places in order to get magical pearls to help them exit the underworld when they finished business with hades. Soon he realised while in a meeting with hades Luke set them up to make it look like percy was a theif. Percy managed to escape and make it to the teleporter to Olympus But...	ACTIONS - what key actions and events did this character take part in? Grover was Percy Jackson’s protector until Percy Jackson become a demi-god and he showed him what he was the hole time. He was a half goat and half human but Percy Jackson calls him “ You're a  Donkey “ I put that in there because is was so funny. Grover managed to run to the car in the casino and drove out very fast to get away from the security’s that were in the casino. When Grover went on an adventure he was so hyped that he couldn't stop talking on the way to LasVegas, Nevada.
HOW DOES THE CHARACTER CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MOVIE? Luke was waiting for percy near the entrance of the teleporter and was willing to fight Percy. The Battle was awesome and ruthless but in the end there was only one winner. Luke got the lightning bolt and was about to hit Percy when all of a sudden Percy struck Luke with his powers and escaped away with the lightning bolt to return it to Zeus.	HOW DOES THE CHARACTER CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MOVIE? Percy Jackson becomes one of the strongest demigods and he becomes a good fighter/warrior. Percy was determined to get his mother back after the fury or Minotaur took her. When Hades told Percy “I got your mother down here in the underworld” He wanted to go and save her then Grover and Anebeth showed up behind him. He sacrifice himself for Percy Jackson to stay in the underworld to save Percy Jackson’s mother.

This task is an understanding blooms task activity that once again me and my two friends Etai and TJ have completed. Showing the storyline on two characters was what we had to do on this activity.

Percy Jackson Movie Tasks Part 1/Remembering

Percy Jackson - The Lightning Thief

Movie Questions

1. What is the relationship between Zeus and Poseidon? They're both angry and mad at each other
2. What learning difficulties has Percy been diagnosed with? Dyslexia
3. Who is Zeus’s father? Kronos
4. What type of mythical creature does the substitute teacher change into before attacking Percy? A Fury
5. Why can’t Percy’s mum get into the camp? Because she isn’t a demigod or a mythical creature.
6. How are Percy’s learning difficulties related to him being a demi-god? He can see signs that tell him the answers to mythical things.
7. What is the name of Annabeth's mum? Athena
8. How did Percy’s mum protect him by being married to Gabe? So that percy would be able to be a demigod.
9. How does Percy look at Medusa without turning to stone? By looking at the reflection on his phone.
10. How do the three heroes defeat the Hydra? With Medusa’s head and in him into stone.
11. How does going into the Lotus Casino affect Percy’s Quest? The three heroes were distracted by eating the Lotus flower.
12. Who stole Zeus’s lightning bolt? Luke
13. Where is the entrance to Olympus? The elevator at the top of the empire state building.
14. Who does Percy Jackson fight at the end? Percy Jackson fought luke.
15. How did Percy defeat his enemy? Percy Jackson used his water powers and drain luke and he just survived.
16. What motivated Luke steal the lightning bolt? Control and being a god and a hero which he isn’t.

This is our remembering task to do with the movie that we watched called Percy Jackson as I said in the previous post. We were answering the questions in black given to us by the teachers and putting them into words that describe them best.

Percy Jackson Movie Tasks

In our syndicate we have weekly movie days for entertainment and work as well. This week we watched the movie Percy Jackson As you might already know from reading the title. Me and my two friends Etai and TJ are going to blog tasks from the blooms taxonomy worksheet and show you our knowledge of the movie.

Fail!

As you can see I did not make it to my goal of blog posts in may. I wrote a message saying that I would at least make it to 25 posts in may. Dam I failed you people. I will make my goal 20 now because it seems that 20 posts is enough for me. Each month I will try to make my goals bigger. For now peace and see you next time.

Cavhyon - Cypress - What makes a hero?

Once again another Drawing done by me and Cavhyon. We were putting our own words into our own definition to describe what is a hero and what makes one. This was a task set by our teacher.

Cypress and Cavhyon - Graphic Organiser on Hercules

Another piece of work put together by me and friend Cavhyon, which is a graphic organiser showing the path of each 3 characters journeys through the movie Hercules. We were getting information from each characters journey through the movie and putting them into this Drawing. I hope that you like.

Cavhyon - Cypress - 3 Hercules Characters

Yesterday we watched the movie Hercules in order to get more involved in our topic about "Myths and Legends." In one activity we had to start of identifying 3 characters and then describe them in key words. Here are Me and my friend Cavhyons answers.

Task 24 Understanding Time Units/Calender

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My Answers:


This task was just about understanding time units. The task was helping me practise my time measuring skills and my fast thinking knowledge as well.

What are the Differences Between A Myth And Legend?

Myth:
A myth is a story based on a real event. It has a message to it to teach people a lesson. It is unrealistic most times. Myths were made up a long time ago to give reasons for natural events, like earthquakes, rain, the sun and so on.

Legend:
A legend is based on true events. They were not made up and were about people or something else. The legend might be changed over time.

Similarities:
They could both have a mythical creature in them. Both of them were passed down from our ancestors to our generation. Legends and myths were created to entertain people as well.




The differences and similarities of what myths and legends are. We learnt about this about a week ago and I was just publishing this to show you my knowledge of what the meaning of our topic is.

Houston Rockets Making It To The Conference Finals

Woohoo!

I am so happy right now because when I went onto the NBA homepage site right on my screen was a headline saying "Houston Rockets In Conference Finals" or something like that. The conference finals is the match where each western and eastern side of the USA Have two teams of each side vs each other. Who ever 2 teams wins on both sides will proceed onto the real finals which will prove who is overall winning team of USA. Yes that is as simple as I can explain it. On the western conference finals Houston will vs Golden State and on the eastern conference side, the Atlanta Hawks will vs Cleveland Cavs. Just before I leave "Good Luck Houston!"

My Myth Relating To School Values

This Drawing above my writing is just showing you what values are in my cultural myth "Maui And The Sun." When I was working on this drawing I was practising my information importing skills.

Basketball Hoop Presentation Change Of Plans

So now Sadly my fellow mate Tanisslous has moved to a new house far away and does not come to our school any more. Now there has been a change of plans on our basketball presentation persuasion. We have to now share a movie to Kids Can to show them how much our syndicate and school want and need this hoop. I will see when I finish the film if I can blog it but if not then sorry about that.

Pink Shirt Day

Well I had nothing to do with this drawing. The people who made this drawing were some of our Kia Manawanui girls who made this to inform our school about pink shirt day. Its a bit bright ain't it. Oh Just before you leave Pink Shirt Day (AKA PDS) is an occasion where you were a pink shirt to stand up and stop bullying.
See Ya Later!

Cypress And James - Comprehension Activity- Compare- Contrast Story - Robin Hood And The Potter Vs The Rainbow Crow

This is an activity I did with my acquaintance James (Check Out His Blog.) We were Just comparing these to stories together and writing down the differences and similarities in the boxes labelled.

Our Trip To The Auckland Museum

Today me and the rest of the Kia Manawanui syndicate went on a trip to visit the museum to find out more about our topic (Myths and Legends.) It was a really fun and cool trip that we went on. We got to even see a real life mummy. We learnt about gods and we learnt about the navigaters of the pacific. It was really fun and I recon that you should go to. Its a great experience.